Motivational Quotes

Choice

Choice strengthens all.

- Prescot, Neal

Best Quotes about Choice

On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us --ah! what a dream, to live in that! --the other stifles us at the first breath.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Refuse the evil, and choose the good. [Isaiah 7:15]

Bible

The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.

Saying, Zen

He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Robbins, Anthony

Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.

Berne, Eric

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

Buscaglia, Leo

If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.

Thomas, David

The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.

Frost, Robert

10.

Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

Riley, Pat

11.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Every choice you make has an end result.

Ziglar, Zig

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I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Stone, W. Clement

15.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

Roddenberry, Gene

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As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.

Retton, Mary Lou

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You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do.

Fonda, Jane

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I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: Therefore choose life. [Deuteronomy 30:19]

Bible

19.

Choice strengthens all.

Prescot, Neal

20.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

Walpole, Horace

21.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Mackay, Harvey

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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

Wilder, Thornton

23.

Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction.

Kelley, David

24.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Bach, Richard

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Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.

Keightley, Alan

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I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

Boswell, James

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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Allen, James

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You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.

Guest, Edgar A.

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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.

Epictetus

31.

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

Carpenter, Liz

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I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

A Course In Miracles

33.

Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.

Richards, Mary Caroline

34.

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

Waitley, Denis

35.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

Mencken, H. L.

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It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.

Hand, Learned

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The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship.

Armesto, Raul

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No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Glasgow, Ellen

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We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

Carson, Rachel

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When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.

Wister, Owen

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Every single moment of your life you must choose from a number of alternatives. What you choose determines where you will end up.

Sinha, Shall

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That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.

Winfrey, Oprah

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You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?

Allenbaugh, Eric

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You are everything that is, your thoughts, your life, your dreams come true. You are everything you choose to be. You are as unlimited as the endless universe.

Helmstetter, Shad

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Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing and that friends, although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him, nor can his relatives. Consequently, he develops real self-confidence based upon his own ability, upon his own action, and upon his own initiative.

Kohe, J. Martin

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If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

Atwood, Margaret

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Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas -- to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.

Clinton, Bill

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Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.

Blyth, R. H.

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We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

Robbins, Anthony